“And mankind directed its first cares towards the needful.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 114.  “It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting its true interest.”—­Life of Charles XII, p. 67.  “All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable.”—­Swift.  “Every sect saith, ‘Give me liberty:’  but give it him, and to his power, he will not yield it to any body else.”—­Oliver Cromwell.  “Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion.”—­Numbers, xxiii, 24.  “For all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”—­Gen., vi, 12.  “There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put it in great consternation.”—­Goldsmith.

UNDER NOTE I.—­THE IDEA OF UNITY.

“The meeting went on in their business as a united body.”—­Foster’s Report, i, 69.  “Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for themselves.”—­Gould’s Advocate, iii, 405.  “It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that State against their own government.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 104.  “The mode in which a Lyceum can apply themselves in effecting a reform in common schools.”—­New York Lyceum.  “Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?”—­Jeremiah, ii, 11.  “In the holy scriptures each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch, from whom they descended.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., ii, 331.

UNDER NOTE II.—­UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.

“A nation, by the reparation of their own wrongs, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give.”—­J.  Q. Adams.  “The English nation, from which we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 45.  “If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent their doing so?”—­Foster’s Report, i, 96.  “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.”—­Proverbs, xxx, 11.  “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.”—­Ib., xxx, 12.  “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel:  the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.”—­Numb., xxiii, 21.  “My people hath forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity.”—­Jer., xviii, 15.  “When a quarterly meeting hath come to a judgment respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to them,” &c.—­Extracts, p. 195; N.  E. Discip., p. 118.  “The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and appear to be limited only by the pleasure or conveniency of the writer.”—­Booth’s Introd. to Dict., p. 37.  “The church of Christ hath the same power now as ever, and are led by the same Spirit into the same practices.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 477.  “The army, whom the chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march.”—­Lockhart’s Napoleon, ii, 165.